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Presenting the first book published under our new imprint, Chance Press Research: Abel Debritto’s Too Powerful a Thing to Reject: Charles Bukowski’s Transition Years, 1945-1957. While a book on Bukowski, perhaps the most widely-published and prolific poet of the 20th Century, doesn’t immediately align with Chance Press Research’s goals of exploring forgotten or underappreciated literature, [...]

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Here are some pictures of the extra-fancy publisher’s copy of the Serafini 2nd edition.  Because this is our first hardcover release, and since I’m pretty proud of the essay inside as well, we wanted to do up a really nice copy to keep in our collection.  So, while the deluxe edition for sale has blue [...]

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The debate about what constitutes a small press bears about as much fruit as debating “what is art?”  Really, anyone who does anything to publicize literature could be considered a small press, from someone that runs a blog like Gloom Cupboard or Zygote in my Coffee to someone that painstaking hand-sews letterpress-printed pages into leather-bound [...]

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Around $200 of bookmaking supplies from my favorite store (www.talasonline.com) arrived yesterday, meaning we can start working on the hardcover special editions of the two Chance Press Research titles we’re releasing next month.  Below are some shots of my first ever full-hardcover book, which came out much better than I expected.  (This one is a [...]

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Yes, it’s a fairly big announcement, and one we’re very excited to make.  Soon, we will release two books under the “Chance Press Research” banner.  More on those books in a minute, but first a word or two about CPR, and how it aligns with our editorial goals…
While we take pride in publishing a wide [...]

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In a clear sign of poetry’s resurgence, the fifteenth person bought a deluxe copy of The Confusion will be Enough for them to Leave you Alone by Stephen Hines, rather than spending the money on 1/7th of an XBOX 360. Also, the fact that this book sold out fairly quickly should motivate you to do [...]

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The covers for the Larding book are done – now all that remains is adding the text, since supposedly books are supposed to have some of that inside.
My guess is that the final books will be ready about 6 weeks after the text is ready, which should take another month or two in itself. [...]

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I think, as someone who is putting even a few books out into the world, it is useful to have a position on print books versus ebooks. The topic will continue to be debated, but it is inevitable that the terms of the debate will change over time, as technology advances, and the voice [...]

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It was unofficially sold out a few months ago, but then we rescued some copies that were on consignment at a book store… and now those, too, are sold out.  We may do a second edition of this book, because it has proven to be way more popular than we thought it would be when [...]

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